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RxJS Cookbook for Reactive Programming

You're reading from   RxJS Cookbook for Reactive Programming Discover 40+ real-world solutions for building async, event-driven web apps

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2025
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788624053
Length 310 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Handling Errors and Side Effects in RxJS 2. Building User Interfaces with RxJS FREE CHAPTER 3. Understanding Reactive Animation Systems with RxJS 4. Testing RxJS Applications 5. Performance Optimizations with RxJS 6. Building Reactive State Management Systems with RxJS 7. Building Progressive Web Apps with RxJS 8. Building Offline-First Applications with RxJS 9. Going Real-Time with RxJS 10. Building Reactive NestJS Microservices with RxJS 11. Index
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Creating mesmerizing fluid particle effects using RxJS

Prepare to be captivated! One of the most beautiful and mesmerizing UI effects is provided by the particles.js library. Although it looks like a visual symphony, crafting such an effect can be really challenging. Luckily for us, RxJS can help us out by orchestrating the movement, interaction, and behavior of individual particles, resulting in a fluid, organic, and truly captivating visual experience.

How to do it…

In this recipe, we are going to re-create the default version of the particles.js animation, only this time with the power and elegance of RxJS.

Step 1 – Drawing particles

When working with complex animations like this, the crucial step is to break the animations into a lot of small, manageable tasks. We’re going to start off easy by generating and drawing static particles on a canvas. In particles.component.html, we will have the following:

<canvas #canvas class="canvas...
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